[
US
/ˌɪmpɔˈɫɪˌtɪk/
]
[ UK /ɪmpəlˈɪtɪk/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpəlˈɪtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not politic
an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue
How To Use impolitic In A Sentence
- Maybe your were wrong on the facts or maybe what you said was impolitic, but you got a word of correction from a spouse, or boss, or friend.
- That extreme, impolitic candor was one of the characteristics that made Rice a perfect rebel and a considerably less perfect leader.
- Although, if I were "impolitical," I probably wouldn't have used the phrase "fresh meat. Archive 2008-06-01
- Of course it might be impolitic to antagonize these groups.
- an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue
- But he objected to something more elemental, and less subject to rehabilitation, than the doctor's impolitic opinion about the caucuses.
- It would have been impolitic to refuse his offer.
- The secretary of defense had evidently concluded that to agree to the reinforcements would be impolitic.
- In fact it sometimes seemed as if the hosts feared that an impolitic remark might trigger World War III.
- It was considered impolitic of him to spend too much time with the party radicals.